Usually means: Causing great pain or sorrow.
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  1. distressfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. distressfully: Collins English Dictionary
  3. distressfully: Vocabulary.com
  4. distressfully: Wordnik
  5. distressfully: Wiktionary
  6. distressfully: Dictionary.com
  7. distressfully: Rhymezone
  8. distressfully: FreeDictionary.org
  9. distressfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. distressfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a distressful way; showing distress

Similar:
distressingly, distressedly, distraughtly, despairingly, despairfully, stressfully, troubledly, troublingly, alarmingly, heartrendingly, more...

Opposite:
comfortably, peacefully, pleasantly, easily

Types:
painfully, hurtfully, distressingly, more...

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Similar:
distressingly, distressedly, distraughtly, despairingly, despairfully, stressfully, troubledly, troublingly, alarmingly, heartrendingly, more...

Opposite:
comfortably, peacefully, pleasantly, easily

Types:
painfully, hurtfully, distressingly, more...



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